some MLs might benefit from re-reading Lenin’s works around WWI, because some subtext around here seems to be picking sides in this inter-imperialist war rather than hoping for peace.
Russia isn’t imperialist, and its actions in the context of the Ukraine war are if anything explicitly anti-imperialist. I imagine that’s why people are disagreeing with you (myself included). Anyone decent will side with Russia (regardless of its genuine issues, none of which involve being imperialist) in its defense of ethnic Russo-Ukranians and other minorities in the region, of its own integrity and resistance against NATO encroachment, and its role as part of the greater global resistance against imperialism as a world system.
Russia isn’t imperialist, and its actions in the context of the Ukraine war are if anything explicitly anti-imperialist. I imagine that’s why people are disagreeing with you (myself included). Anyone decent will side with Russia (regardless of its genuine issues, none of which involve being imperialist) in its defense of ethnic Russo-Ukranians and other minorities in the region, of its own integrity and resistance against NATO encroachment, and its role as part of the greater global resistance against imperialism as a world system.